A red-letter day for Erin-Lee Watkinson as she rides her first winner on Magnetic Dime at Kenilworth. Image: Wayne Marks

Red-letter day for Erin-Lee Watkinson

PUBLISHED: November 29, 2020

Women jockeys are increasingly making an impact around the world and, if sheer determination is anything to go by, Erin-Lee Watkinson may one day make her mark in what is still largely a male dominated profession. The Andre Nel-trained Magnetic Dime opened one of the favourites for the Work Riders’ Maiden but punters, most of […]

KOM NAIDOO

Catch a wave with Banzai Pipeline

PUBLISHED: November 28, 2020

Andrew Harrison IT’S been two months since Hollywoodbets Scottsville saw a racehorse with the track undergoing its annual spring treatment and with ample spring rains to help, tomorrow’s runners should be racing on a ‘billiard table’. Many trainers have taken the opportunity to race on fresh turf and punters are faced with well-filled fields that […]

INQUIRY – TRAINER L F ROBINSON

PUBLISHED: November 27, 2020

THE National Horseracing Authority confirms that at an Inquiry held in Durban on 26 November 2020, Trainer L F Robinson was charged with a contravention of Rule 72.1.43. The specifics of the charge being that on or about 14 November 2020, he posted a comment on a social media platform which could reasonably be construed to […]

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Summer Pudding takes on the boys

PUBLISHED: November 27, 2020

David Thiselton THE WSB Summer Cup to be run over 2000m on Turffontein Standside on Saturday is one of the country’s big three races and is always a particularly exciting betting heat as the handicap weight structure gives most of the twenty runners a chance. There will have been plenty of rain during the build […]

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Crown Towers has arrived safely in Johannesburg

PUBLISHED: November 27, 2020

David Thiselton JUSTIN SNAITH said the decision to run Crown Towers in the Grade 1 WSB Summer Cup was largely as a show of support for the like of MOD (Mary Oppenheimer and Daughters), Mike de Kock and the RA, who had done a lot to save Cape racing. He said, “They have always supported […]